The basic guidance for multiple records of the National Archival Holdings of the Republic of Belarus is provided archival directories.

An important part of the website are subject guides to archival records on various aspects of the history and culture of Belarus. The guides contain lists of records, online exhibitions, summaries of archival publications, general information on research topics. The selected topics include the Great Patriotic War (the Second World War in the Soviet Union 1941-1945), the First World War, the War of 1812, the Insurrection of 1863-1864, the Culture of Belarus (architecture of churches, castles, palaces etc.), Famous People of Belarus (Ignańy Domeyko, Napoleon Orda, Vintsent Dunin-Martsinkevich, Yefim Karsky, Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, Maksim Bogdanovich, Boris Kit, Vladimir Korotkevich) etc.

A special piece of information are the materials of the UNESCO project "Documentary Heritage of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth/Rzeczpospolita", which describe the archival and manuscript collections of the Commonwealth held in archives and libraries in many European countries (Belarus, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Russia, Germany, Austria, France, Sweden, Finland).

Announcements

23 May 2018

On 29 May 2018 the Department for Archives and Records Management of the Justice Ministry holds “direct telephone line” More >>

12 April 2018

The Belarusian Archives-Museum of Literature and Art holds the Eighteenth Archival Readings More >>

New on the site

21 March 2018

The website presents a virtual exhibition of documents “Nation-State Formation in Belarus 1918-1920” More >>

Archival news

22 May 2018

BelNIIDAD issued a new General Records Schedule for the National Archival Holdings of the Republic of Belarus More >>

14 May 2018

The National Historical Archives of Belarus held a presentation of the academic edition “The Armorial of Belarusian Nobility” More >>

10 May 2018

The National Technical Committee on Standardization “Records Management” held a session More >>

08 May 2018

BGAMLI holds an exhibition dedicated to 135th anniversary of the birth of Belarusian writer Yanka MAUR More >>

12 April 2018

A guidebook “Latin-language documents on the history of Belarus in the 13th and 14th centuries in foreign archives” has been released More >>